text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - KITAS Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in KITAS Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Indonesia View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ChesterJoined: 15 May 2004Posts: 383Location: Australia Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:45 am Post subject: KITAS I have heard so many different prices for KITAS - anything from 4 to 10 mill rup. Its gotta be cheaper than a business visa. Anyone? Back to top ls650Joined: 10 May 2003Posts: 3484Location: British Columbia Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject: Re: KITAS Chester wrote: I have heard so many different prices for KITAS - anything from 4 to 10 mill rup. Its gotta be cheaper than a business visa. Anyone? I thought it was 6 juta. Back to top WinmarJoined: 11 Feb 2003Posts: 125Location: Melbourne Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:48 pm Post subject: What's a business visa cost? Back to top raymanJoined: 24 May 2003Posts: 427 Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:31 am Post subject: Like most others I can't give you an exact figure. I'm told it's around Rp10 million. What I do know is that in the last few months an additional EPO tax has been introduced. I can't recall what the EPO stands for, but it means employers have to pay an additional US$100 a month for each employee on a KITAS. Even if the employee breaks the contract, the full US$1200 must also be payed. This was through EF. But is across the board I believe. So for those signing contracts whereby if you prematurely terminate the contract you're required to cover all visa expenses, then the cost will most likely be increasing dramatically. Back to top phisJoined: 10 Mar 2003Posts: 250 Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject: Well, I'll check out tomorrow with the boss what the figure is for KITAS, but I reckon it is going to be around 10 million, once you take in all the incidental costs, employing an agent etc. Yes okay, the school could try to do it themselves without an agent, but after all the hard work, you are going to get the application rejected more times than you get it accepted. The agent is known in the immigration department and knows all the ins and outs of the system. By the way, you as the employee shouldn't have to worry about all this. The school processes the application and is responsible for the cost. Any school that is telling you that you have to pay should be avoided like the plague! Of course, the school is going to want there money back if you walk out on your contract. They are not in this to subsidise people who see language teaching as a cheap way to see the world. And before you all 'flame' me - I know there are people who genuinely have problems with 'rogue schools'. I was one of them and got ripped off royally by one school! However, there are a lot of people out there who take on a job with no intentions of staying for the one year stipulated in their contract. What is a responsible school supposed to do - just keep giving free handouts? That is a lot of money to lose! I don't know what the EPO stands for, but it roughly translates as 'Foreign Workers Tax'. It is US$1200 and is not paid monthly, but has to be paid by the company, up front and in full. All this shouldn't worry you at all if you genuinely intend to stay for the full year and you are signing on with a reputable school. Yes I know! - HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S REPUTABLE? The problem is, if we say anything about our own schools, it will be seen as advertising and will probably be taken off the boards. A Catch 22 situation really! Back to top zpivatJoined: 15 Jul 2004Posts: 9Location: Toronto/Budapest Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject: EPO = Exit Permit Only Back to top phisJoined: 10 Mar 2003Posts: 250 Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: The Exit Permit is completely different to the Foreign Workers Tax. It has to be obtained by the company you are working for whenever you want to leave the country. However it doesn't cost them much, in comparison to the already quoted FWT and KITAS. In addition, there is the Fiscal Fee of 1 million rupiahs (if you are leaving by air). This should also be paid by the school. Make sure it appears in your contract. The schools will (should) usually pay both the Exit Permit and the Fiscal Fee at the end of your contract. However, if you want to leave the country on holiday, you will have to pay these taxes yourself, so don't forget to add them to the cost of your holiday. Back to top ChesterJoined: 15 May 2004Posts: 383Location: Australia Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject: Kitas I have sponsor (not teaching). I teach part-time for extra cash. Some guys paid 4 mill, some paid 10 for KITAS. thats indonesia. the killer is the manpower tax. 1200 dollars US for the year, paid up front. i am damn sure ILP and the like avoid these with a Golden Handshake. the government either likes to milk foreigners, or they dont want us here. "foreigners take jobs from unemployed Indonesians" oh come on, really? Back to top willyJoined: 29 Mar 2003Posts: 215Location: Samarinda,Kalimantan,Indonesia(left TW) Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject: Business visa are about 10us$ for 30 or 60 days depend on who stamps it. there are Mutable entry ones but they are harder to get, anyway you still need to fly out so its not cheep Kitas will set you back 1200US$ plus the agent fee and a trip to Singapore and a bribe to the top guy in the embassy or a weeks wait. 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Ace In The Hole
This story appears in the May 1997 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
To understand just how fertile the electronics business is, consider the heritage of Ed Meltzer. His parents' TV and radio repair shop, started in 1959 in Kansas City, today is not only a thriving systems integrator but has also given birth to another high-tech venture, Intelligent Wireless Systems Inc., of which Meltzer is president and CEO.
The Prairie Village, Kansas, company designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary wireless transceivers for the automation and control industries. For instance, the company's Automated Vehicle Locating and Information System (AVLIS), designed and manufactured for the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, provides the transit company with up-to-the-minute information about how effectively the fleet is serving transit riders at any given moment. "The system saves them money," Meltzer says.
The evolution of the Meltzers' company--from a mom and pop enterprise serving a neighborhood to a high-tech company developing products with global applications--mirrors the changes in the American business scene at large. Although this change has been for the better, it has also created fundamental shifts in how businesses are financed. While his parents could throw their savings into opening a storefront business and, through diligent reinvestment of profits, create a prosperous family enterprise, Meltzer cannot.
Why? Because like most technology-driven companies, he must pour a fortune into research and development, and then chase down vast new technology-driven markets that materialize quickly and grow exponentially. Under this regime, the old model of reinvesting profits just doesn't work. Today, the opportunities facing many companies demand large quantities of patient, permanent equity capital upfront. For Meltzer, this upfront requirement was nearly $1 million.
In July 1996, Meltzer put together a Small Company Offering Registration (SCOR) deal for $945,000; it was approved for sale in Kansas and Missouri that fall. Meltzer hoped to close the deal by year-end, or at least reach a minimum of $671,000 in investments. But as of February 1997, his commitments totaled just $400,000.
Is something wrong with Meltzer, Intelligent Wireless or the deal? None of the above. The problem is that while the company is on the cutting edge of technology, Meltzer must contend with arcane ways of raising capital that, in the context of today's rapid pace, seem to take forever.
Specifically, Meltzer, like thousands of entrepreneurs before him and thousands more to follow, must slowly, methodically and exhaustively beat the bushes for investors. Then he must physically get himself in front of each one, make the pitch, and follow up until the check is in the mail. "To get the $400,000 committed so far," says Meltzer, "we went through about 100 investors." To get the second half of the deal done, Meltzer estimates he'll go through another 100 or so. Oy vay!
Happily, there's a better way, and Meltzer plans to take advantage of it. It's called ACE-Net, which stands for the Angel Capital Electronic Network. ACE-Net is a project sponsored by the Small Business Administration (SBA); after years of public policy debating, lobbying, and nurturing at universities and economic development organizations, the system became operational last year.
According to Terry Bibbens, entrepreneur in residence at the SBA Office of Advocacy and one of the program's many architects, ACE-Net is "an Internet-based network that provides new options to small companies looking for capital and new opportunities to so-called `accredited investors' looking for investment opportunities." Bibbens says ACE-Net removes many of the limitations entrepreneurs traditionally face when trying to link up with angels (wealthy investors) on a nationwide basis.
Nuts And Bolts
Listings of stock offerings on ACE-Net are found through an online search engine that permits investors to find the type of company, technology, investment size or geography they are looking for. Once the information is found, the investor can review or download the forms filed by the listed companies. If the investor wishes to purchase stock, he or she can then contact the company directly.
According to Bibbens, companies that want to be listed on ACE-Net must go through one of several nodes, or network operators. Eight initial nodes have been designated; as of the first quarter of 1997, four were operational, with others scheduled to be online this month. The four operational nodes are the Technology Capital Network at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston; The Capital Network Inc. in Austin, Texas; Accelerate at the University of California, Irvine; and Advance Technology Development Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
As for the investors, access is limited to accredited investors--defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission as, among other things, individuals who have a net worth or joint net worth with a spouse in excess of $1 million, or have net income in excess of $200,000 or joint income with a spouse in excess of $300,000 in each of the last two years and expect similar income in the current year.
Limiting access to accredited investors offers participating entrepreneurs a real advantage, says Bibbens, because it puts them in touch with individuals who have not only the interest but also the financial wherewithal to invest in their companies.
Indeed, ACE-Net is no mere electronic coffeeklatsch. ACE-Net listings consist of actual offerings that are exempt from federal registration under Regulation A or Regulation D. In other words, to be listed on ACE-Net, a company must be doing a Reg A or Reg D deal, not simply shopping a business plan. In addition, the form (U-7) used to file for a listing on ACE-Net is a SCOR form. Filling out a SCOR form is no walk in the park. Says Bibbens, "Entrepreneurs should not attempt to use this avenue without a securities attorney."
Big Business
The importance of ACE-Net cannot be underestimated. Bibbens says
the most popular estimate of the amount of equity capital
America's emerging new enterprises need is on the order of $60
billion each year. While angels are capable of making a
sizable dent in this need, time and place constraints such as those
faced by Meltzer, to say nothing of the regulatory barriers, have
until now kept entrepreneurs
from easily tapping angels' resources.
The reason for the problem comes down to just one word: efficiency. Among brokers, traders and professional investors, this term has a precise meaning. Specifically, it refers to the speed and proficiency with which information is disseminated. The more efficient a market is, the theory goes, the more buyers and sellers are attracted to it because they can make investment decisions based on knowledge of all relevant facts that are available.
Under this definition, it's also easy to see just how inefficient the market is for private capital. Distributing information among private investors is difficult. There's no uniformity. Buyers and sellers have wildly diverse agendas.
And this is precisely where ACE-Net can make such a fundamentally important mark: It dramatically increases the efficiency of information distribution. In fact, within the strictest constructs of the discipline, ACE-Net mirrors the mechanisms of any stock market by matching buyers and sellers with uniform information. When this happens, capital flows more freely.
For entrepreneurs like Ed Meltzer, that's certainly the expectation: "My hope is that 30 days after going up on ACE-Net we will be fully funded."
For more information on ACE-Net, visit (http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov) or (http://ace-net.unh.edu)., or contact Jere Glover, Chief Counsel of the SBA's Office of Advocacy, at (202) 205-6533 or (202) 205-6928 (fax).
Contact Sources
Intelligent Wireless Systems Inc., 7301 Mission Rd., #206, Prairie Village, KS 66208, (913) 362-0900;
Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, (800) 8-ASK-SBA, (202) 205-7749, (http://www.sba.gov/ADVO/).
David R. Evanson, a writer and consultant, is a principal of
Financial Communications Associates in
Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

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I'm going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. I will cover from Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully css based html, and finally wordpress implementation.
Table Of Content
Below is the index of the topics that we will go through:
- Structuring, Designing in Photoshop.
- Slicing and Coding.
- WordPress Implementation.
- header.php
- sidebar.php
- about.php – a custom file for the about section in the sidebar.
- footer.php
- index.php
- featured-post.php – a custom file for the featured posts.
- page.php
- single.php
- comments.php
- archives.php, links.php
- search.php, searchform.php
- function.php
- image.php
This is a very important part in designing a web layout. We need to structure our layout before open Photoshop. The first thing is the purpose of the layout. In our case, this will be a blog layout for WordPress. So, below is what we have in a blog:
- Header
- Posting area
- Sidebar
- Single page
- Comment
- Feedback
- Searching field
- Page menu
- Archives, Links and About Page
Something we need to keep in mind. We can't put all things into one basket. So, we CANNOT:
- Display too many things in one single page.
- Use too many colors and font type.
In this sample, I also try to make is as simple as possible because the purpose of this series of tutorial is to give an example on how to create a wordpress theme. I am going to have a featured post section on the main page. Below is the Final image that we will create.
Final Result
Step 1
Create a new document with 1024px X 768px as we are going to create a layout which suit for 1024px resolution. Fill it the background layer with #eae8c6. Now, CTRL + R to bring out the ruler. Draw some guide line for the divine proportion we need. Before this, make sure it is snap. Go to View > snap (selected).
Step 2
Grab the rectangle tool and draw a header for it. The height, you have to estimate how much you want. Balance is the main thing you need to concern. Then, apply the blending option as shown below. A black to white gradient with soft light blend mode. Create another rectangle, apply gradient overlay with setting as shown below. Put it 1px below the green bar. It will make it more details. Then, draw a 1 pixel line and put it right above the gap between the two bars you created before. Give it a darker color.
Step 3
I use Myriad Pro. So, you guys can edit it by yourself later. Apply drop shadow with the setting shown below. Then, also apply Gradient Overlay with 12% opacity, black to white. For the white outline stroke. Simply hold the CTRL tab and click on the text layer to get the selection. Go to Select > Modify > Contract > 1px. After that, create a new layer. Go to Edit > Stroke > 1px, white, inside.
Step 4
Draw a rectangle, remember, the maximum width you can use is 600px. Ok, make its white color. Apply 1px inside white stroke. And, Gradient Overlay with the setting as shown below.
Step 5
The read more button is actually using the same technique where we used for the logo. This time, we apply Inner Glow with 8px size and 75% Opacity in Soft Light Blend Mode. Gradient Overlay with 70% opacity also in Soft Light Blend Mode. Finally, A 1px outside stroke with color #47670b. Then, for the 1px inside white stroke. It is same with what we did in step 3.
Step 6
Place in some dummy text and photo. You will have something like this. You can use a text generator for this.
Step 7
Put in some Dummy Text again. Try to use none anti-alias font for testing. Don't forget what a wordpress theme needed. Post title, tags, post date, comments number. This time, I add in author photo part to be shown in every post.
Step 8
Place a RSS icon. I forgot where I downloaded it already…sorry about that… Then, For the search area, create a rounded rectangle with a maximum width of 330px. Fill it with black color and set it blend mode to soft light. Create another rounded rectangle inside. This will be our input field. Fill it with white color. Apply 1px inside stroke with color – #d0ceae. Then, apply inner Glow, with setting shown below. After that, place the searching icon.
Step 9
Draw a rounded rectangle and use the pen tool to draw a dialog box as shown below. You can refer to my previous tutorial in LoonDesign on how to create a custom shape in photoshop. Then, apply drop shadow on it. Use the rectangle tool to create the categories and links content box. The maximum width will be 160px. We need a 10px space in between them.
Step 10
We are almost there. Now, we will use the same technique we used to create the header part.
You may found that I do not mention about the page navigation part. I think it is too simple for you. Try it out yourself. If really can't, I am also providing the source file for you here. Overall, there is several things we need to consider when creating a wordpress theme. In this example, we are creating for blogging purpose. So, the major section will be, categories, tagging, author photo, comments and also the RSS feed. I prefer to make things more organizes. So, you can found that all the layers in my psd file are well renamed and each section is well separated. This is for future modification purpose and also for my dear reader to modify it easily.
Single Page
As we are creating theme for wordpress, there must be a single page to display a post and comment section. Here is the final output.


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Leadership Coaching: Supportive and Directive Approaches Workshop
Coaching associates to help them achieve their goals and adhere to company directives are primary responsibilities of a manager, and some of the most challenging. To coach to specific behaviors or actions, managers will use either supportive or directive techniques. By evaluating their team members' individual strengths and opportunities, a strong leader will know which technique to use and when.
သင်လေ့လာသင်ယူရမည့် အရာများ
In this workshop, you analyze the difference between supportive and directive coaching. You explore supportive coaching to help encourage associates to adapt to alternate ideas or processes, and directive coaching to modify behavior. How to anticipate and address different responses to coaching is covered to ensure coaching sessions are constructive and respectful.
သင်ဘာကြောင့် ဤသည်ကိုသင်ယူချင်ရသည်
Coaching is a major responsibility of every manager, and for many people it can be a challenge. Managers need to be able to maintain performance standards, be certain people are following policies and procedures and hit individual and team targets. And we have to do all of this through other people.
သင့်ကို မည်သို့ ကူညီပေးမည်
You will be able to evaluate and prepare for how different people will respond to coaching. You will apply directive coaching to modify behavior and apply supportive coaching to persuade associates to consider other options.


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The Football Association has confirmed that the stadium roof will be closed for Wednesday afternoon's World Cup qualifier between England and Poland in Warsaw.
The failure to close the roof on Tuesday caused huge controversy following a day-long deluge which forced the match to be postponed for 20 hours.
The roof was eventually closed after the match was called off, but opened again earlier on Wednesday to take advantage of the bright and sunny conditions in an attempt to dry the playing service.
England coaches Ray Lewington, Gary Neville and Dave Watson attended a meeting at the National Stadium on Wednesday, where it was confirmed the roof would be closed at 12.30pm (BST) and remain that way for the rest of the day.
Officials have described the pitch as "no better than okay" after coach Roy Hodgson expressed his concern on Tuesday night. Wednesday's match is due to start at 4pm (BST).


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The action figures in this series varied from good to bad. The Cylons featured cool sculpts but the human characters left a lot to be desired. Stick with the ships; the Vipers were incredible and the Stealth Raider was a nice throwback to Mattel's release in the '80s.
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One of the benefits of having this blog, is that it reaches a lot of people. It humbles me how many people actually stop by to visit me. And because I know you're out there, I'm asking for your help.
I need help, but today it's not for me. I have a cousin who is really sick right now and in the hospital. I don't want to get into the details of why he is where he is, but he certainly could use all the prayers you can spare. If prayer is not your thing, then please wish him nothing but good thoughts, light a candle, chant, whatever it is you believe in!
The next few
days hours are really critical for him and he NEEDS to get better or... Well I don't want to think about what could happen to him so please if you're reading this keep my cousin in your thoughts. I don't really know what else to do so I'm believing in prayer. And I'm hoping.
Thank you, Monica


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Archive for March, 2009
HAIR MAN:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
OH FOR A POSTER OF THIS:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
UNCROPPED:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
WAVE:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
AHNOS:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
STROLLING:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
EARLY:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
MR HAT:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
ACOUSTIC:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
RUGGED UP:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
TRASHED BUT COOL:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
1976 SIGNATURES:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
COKE:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
KENWOOD:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
TIRED:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
STEPS:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
LOOKING GOOD:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
GEORGE 1972:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
PAUL AND DONOVAN:Sunday, March 29th, 2009
TESTING ONE TWO:Saturday, March 28th, 2009
YAY!:Saturday, March 28th, 2009
GARDEN:Saturday, March 28th, 2009
SNAP:Saturday, March 28th, 2009
LAST DAYS:Saturday, March 28th, 2009
It was one of the few times in Lennon's life, according to Yoko, that he didn't purposely go out and make waves. "You must understand," she said, "we had a very difficult time with immigration. But when John finally got his green card, he thought, well, he has a son, he has his green card. Maybe this is not the time to be too dangerous." Then came the summer of 1980. Against the political backdrop of fifty-two Americans still being held hostage in Iran, which greatly diminished the chances of Jimmy Carter's reelection bid and made Reagan look more and more like the next president of the United States, Lennon traveled with a five-man crew to Bermuda. His intention was to rent a house on the island and simply while away his time swimming and sailing. But something else happened on Bermuda, and it turned out to be a burst of creative energy that saw him writing more than a dozen songs in three weeks.
He knew Yoko also had been writing songs in New York, and they would spend days on the phone singing their latest compositions to each other. It was clear to both of them that they would start recording a new album as soon he got back.
"He was so excited on the phone," recalled Yoko. "He said, 'I wrote two songs.'
"And I said, 'I have two songs. Let's make an EP.'
"And then the next day, he said, 'Now I have two more.' "And I said, 'Well, maybe now it should be an album.' That's how it started. We decided to work on a theme, and he was very excited about that. He just kept thanking me and thanking me."
On Tuesday, August 5, John and Yoko entered the Hit Factory, on West 48th Street in New York, to begin recording the album, Double Fantasy. Producer Jack Douglas was at the controls, and photographer Bob Gruen was given almost free reign to document the sessions with candid pictures.
"I visited the studio on and off from late summer through the end of the backing track sessions," said Gruen. "I was there a number of times while they recorded. We really had no set appointments. I just did things as the situation came up. John was extremely positive about the music he was making, and excited to be back in the studio. He was coming from a position of real strength in his life. He had spent five years out of the limelight, and he had taken time to raise his son and learn about parenting and about living.
"The album was to be about the relationship between a man and a woman," said Gruen. "And in that regard it was very much a John and Yoko project, not just John Lennon. A track of his would follow a track of hers, and then they'd stop to talk about their feelings and deal with the relationship. To me, he appeared so grounded."
"I had been in a hundred recording studios with different artists, and I'd been with John in various studios, as well," said Mintz. "The recording of Double Fantasy was unique because in many ways it was a metaphor for the way John's life was coming to completion. All these recording studios-the Hit Factory, where John and Yoko recorded the album, or the Record Plant, where it was mixed-have closed-circuit cameras at the front door. They have this so an engineer can see who is ringing the buzzer. A lot of sessions sometimes go on into the middle of the night. The studio may not be in the best neighborhood. So they need these cameras for security reasons. One of the things I remember about the Double Fantasy sessions was John and Yoko pinning a large photograph of Sean to the face of the TV monitor above the recording console. You couldn't see who was outside, but for John and Yoko it was more important to see Sean staring down at the console.
"Yoko also created this small anteroom just off of the control room, a white room, twenty by fifteen," said Mintz, "that she made to look like a mini version of their living room at the Dakota. The lighting in this room was lowered, and it was filled with candles and incense. A Japanese woman named Toshi served tea. It was a room John and Yoko would go to when there was a lull in the session. I remember going with them into the room. John was wearing slacks and a jacket and a shirt that was open at the collar. In that room, he spoke about the project softly, tentatively, and rhapsodically. It was a quiet room, unlike any room I'd ever seen at a rock and roll recording session. None of the other musicians or technical people ever entered that room. It was mostly a room where John and Yoko could relax."
On Thursday, October 9, a skywriting plane flew over Central Park and spelled out the smoky message "Happy Birthday John & Sean. Love Yoko." Below the message was a dual birthday party that Yoko threw at Warner LeRoy's famed Central Park restaurant, Tavern on the Green. "Mainly we concentrated on Sean," said Yoko. "He had a great time at the party. It was mostly his friends at the party, kids from school, a few parents, Sean's best friend, Max LeRoy, and his parents, Warner and Kay LeRoy. It was John's birthday and Sean's birthday, but John wanted it to be a day for Sean."
Sean's father kept mostly to himself in the cavernous multiroom restaurant, watching the party as though he were there as an observer and not a celebrant. There was, after all, much to reflect on. He was now forty.
"I don't think he felt forty was necessarily a milestone age for him," said Yoko, looking back at the day. "I mean, he wrote the song, 'Life Begins at Forty,' which was a serious song when he first wrote it. Then he listened to his own lyrics, and he said, 'I can't do this. I have to make it funny.' So he wound up creating a comic song about turning forty. That's how he wanted to look at it, especially that day. I think he wanted to play down his age and focus on Sean."
Mintz made one other trip to New York in early November, specifically to hear John and Yoko's new album. "The engineer would prepare cassettes for John, and he would take them back to the Dakota and play them on the little stereo in his bedroom," said Mintz. "He had none of the fancy equipment at home. He always believed music should be listened to the way it comes out on a car radio."
Mintz went back to the Dakota with John and Yoko that night, into what was called the "old bedroom," facing West Seventy-second Street. John's primitive hi-fi system was on one side of the bed. At the foot of the bed was a television, a large-screen TV that John had purchased a few years before in Tokyo. Mintz was with him in Japan when he bought the TV.
"He was one of the first people to import a large-screen TV from Japan," said Mintz. "But he really needed a large screen, because without his eyeglasses on he couldn't see more than four or five feet in front of him."
Behind the bed was a brick wall, and in front of it, up against the foot, was the large-screen TV. On either side of the television were these two large old-fashioned dental cabinets, the kind that you might see in a Norman Rockwell painting from the 1930s, with twenty or thirty sliding drawers, basically for clothing and John's ties.
"The whole look was simple, and it just worked," said Mintz. "And the room, of course, was either lit by candles or so dimly lit that you could hardly see a thing. And that's how I first heard Double Fantasy, in that setting. John put the cassette on and he kicked back in bed. He was in his pajamas, Yoko was in her nightgown, and I sat in a white wicker rocking chair on Yoko's side of the bed. The music just wafted throughout the open room. And the two of them were very stiff and quiet. The TV was on, with the sound off. John didn't have his glasses on, so to him everything was completely out of focus. He referred to the TV as his electronic fireplace."
When the music was over, Mintz and Lennon talked into the night. Yoko fell asleep. "She usually went to sleep when John and I spoke," said Mintz. "Yoko does not sleep the way most people sleep. She takes a series of catnaps during every twenty-four-hour period. She'll go down for two or three hours, come up, do what she has to do, and when she gets tired she goes to sleep again. She can sleep at the drop of a dime. She had heard thousands of hours of the John and Elliot dialogue. And with my kind of late-night FM voice, and John mostly talking about things Yoko already knew about, I would expect her to fall asleep. And that night she did.
"John was enthusiastic about everything that night, not only about the record coming out, but also about what the record symbolized, and where he was with his family," said Mintz. "A few weeks prior to this he had prepared his first loaf of bread that he baked in his oven. He sent me a Polaroid picture of the loaf of bread, which to him was a symbol of pride that he could do such a thing as create a loaf of bread. I still have the Polaroid of the loaf of bread. I know there's the impression that his life was very frenetic, very busy, but in fact it was Yoko who was generating a lot of the business stuff and taking the phone calls. John just seemed content with where he was, and completely at peace in terms of his relationship with Sean. Each night before he slept, he would put Sean to sleep by cradling him in his arms and whispering into his ears the various things that the two of them did that day.
"I asked him about going out on the road and performing live, assuming the record was a success, and he was affirmative about all of it," said Mintz. "He basically said, 'Whatever Mother thinks we should do.' In fact, Yoko had already laid the groundwork for a mini-tour, not something that would take them around the world on a jet plane, like Mick Jagger does with the Rolling Stones. It was just going to be some key locations in key cities."
There came a point in the middle of the night when Lennon was finally through talking. He wasn't bashful about kicking Mintz out. He just simply said, "Okay, I think I'm going to close my eyes now." "He said, 'Let me walk you to the door.'
"And I said, 'John, I know my way to the door.' But he was insistent," said Mintz. "So he got up, in his pajamas, and he led me to the door. There was a chain of bells hanging on the doorknob, on the inside of their front door. They were Tibetan or Buddhist bells, on a small chain not much thicker than a woman's large necklace. They rang with a high-pitched tone, not loud, not like gongs. And as we got to the door, he turned the knob and opened it, and the bells started ringing. And for no particular reason that I could discern, he smiled at me, and said, 'It's our alarm system.'"
Thanksgiving at the Lennon apartment, just a week after the release of Double Fantasy, turned out to be a simple celebration, with only three people in attendance that night: John, Yoko, and Sean. "It seemed like we were the only family we had then," said Yoko. "Thanksgiving is about collecting your family, and mine was in Japan, and John's was in England. John was an only child, his parents were both gone, and Thanksgiving is not an English holiday. So who were we going to invite? I mean, I could have called Japan, and said, 'Come to Thanksgiving at our house.' And they would have said, 'What?' "I didn't cook," said Yoko. "We had turkey brought in. But we were very into the idea of Thanksgiving. This whole idea of a pilgrimage, and the white people learning from the Indians, that was an important concept for Sean to learn. He was born an American, and Thanksgiving is an American thing. And we were feeling very American at that time, especially since John had just gotten his green card. We felt like we were starting over as an American family."
It is no coincidence that the song "(Just Like) Starting Over" became the album's first single. "It was not written until very late in the process," said Yoko. "It was like it suddenly came from left field. But we were starting over in a big way. We had the child we never thought we'd have. We tried so many times, and I was always having a miscarriage or something. So this was a big, important thing to us."
And it became a big disappointment when the single did not do as well in England as the Lennons had expected. "When the single hit Britain, we thought it would go to number one. When it got stuck at eight, I felt very responsible," said Yoko. "I felt I had to make sure that this whole project was good for John. And now the record stopped in England. I went to John, and I said, 'Look, I'm sorry. It's eight.' "He knew exactly what I meant," she said. "It was eight, and it was not going to go up any further. He just looked at me, and he said, 'Hey, you know, I still have my family.' But he also knew that a lot of what we did over the years was not popular. He had pride in what he was doing, and he was doing something he believed in. He was an avant-garde artist in that way. You do something not because you think it will be popular. You do it because you believe in it."
Back in California, Mintz continued his regular phone dialogue with the Lennons, speaking to Yoko daily, and to John maybe three, four times a week. "With the album still relatively new," said Mintz, "he talked to me about what I thought the public reaction to his reemergence might be, after all that time away. And I recall asking him, 'Do you care? Does it matter?' "He snickered," said Mintz. "He said for years he was always concerned when he saw any of the pop stars in the magazines because he was never one who enjoyed going to places like Studio 54 and having his picture taken. Because he had been out of the loop for so long, he wondered whether or not he would even be remembered, and whether or not the music would still be relevant or significant. I believe his questions to me on the phone were more rhetorical than anything else. He did say that none of his contemporaries had ever put their women on the same level as he did with Yoko. That's why Double Fantasy was so special to him, because it was not a reemergence of Beatle John coming back to say hello again, but a statement of where he was in his life.
"By this time he had also given up any kind of drug use," said Mintz. "He was very clear, very in-tune. He would divide his conversations between what was going on with the music, what was going on at the house, and what was going on in the political world. Whatever occurred on the news he would want me to pay attention. He also told me he didn't feel tired anymore. There was a long period of time that he complained of lethargy and weariness. But in these few conversations he was all upbeat."
On Thursday night, December 4, Bob Gruen met Lennon at the Record Plant, on West Forty-fourth Street, where he was mixing Yoko's single "Walking on Thin Ice." The song had been hastily recorded after Double Fantasy was completed.
"They did all their mixing at the Record Plant," said Gruen. "I took a number of pictures of John and Yoko around the studio that night. They posed in front of an eight-foot-tall guitar that John had fabricated for an avant-garde festival. It was too big for them to take home, so they ended up loaning it to the Record Plant for a while. I knew he had made it, so I wanted them posing in front of it.
"Then he told me about this coat he had at home, this fancy gold and red braided jacket with Japanese writing on it," said Gruen. "He wanted me to shoot pictures of him wearing this coat, so we made another plan for me to come back the next night, and I did." While Yoko spent most of Friday night, December 5, putting various vocal effects on her single, Gruen sat with Lennon on the floor of the Record Plant and talked.
"For a long time we talked about the future," said Gruen. "He was very excited that he had come back, and very excited about what Yoko had managed to do on the album. He was really amused by the fact that she was getting great reviews and that her music was being called new and interesting, as opposed to his music, which some critics called a bit tamer and middle of the road. He was very excited about that because he really liked Yoko's influence. He also talked about taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays, and then he wanted to start rehearsing with a band and record some videos by the end of January. He estimated that they'd probably be performing live by March. He even talked about the possibility of doing concerts in Japan. We both had a common interest in Japan. We were talking about places where we were going to go shopping, and restaurants where we were going to eat."
It was dawn on Saturday, December 6, by the time Yoko finished her work in the studio. All during the night Lennon never put on the braided jacket, and now he was carrying it over his arm as he walked outside with Yoko and Gruen.
"It must have been six or seven in the morning when we got outside," said Gruen. "I asked John if we could take the pictures right then, and Yoko said, 'Oh, I feel tired. Let's do it another time.' "And John said to her, 'Look, you've kept him up all night. Let's take some pictures.' So he put on the jacket and I took about half a roll of pictures out on the sidewalk. A car was waiting for them. John said to me, 'See you later,' and they left."
That afternoon, Lennon went by himself to his favorite West Side haunt, Cafe La Fortuna, a small Italian coffee shop on West Seventy-first Street, just around the corner from the Dakota. John and Yoko were regulars at Cafe La Fortuna, right from the time it opened in 1976. They would often go in together, with or without Sean, and there were many more times that Lennon could be found there by himself, drinking cappuccino, nibbling on Italian-made chocolates, reading the newspapers, and talking with the restaurant's owner, Vincent Urwand.
Lennon viewed La Fortuna as a safe haven, and over time he established the kind of relationship with Urwand that allowed for much teasing and playful banter. Urwand even teased him that day about Double Fantasy."Look, you've had all those years of wildness and success in the Beatles," Urwand was quoting as saying in Ray Coleman's exhaustively researched John Lennon biography, Lennon.
"You don't need the money," argued Urwand. "What are you doing all this for? You're enjoying being a husband and father!" According to Coleman's book, Lennon responded first by laughing, and then saying to Urwand, "I swore I'd look after that boy until he was five, and he's five and I feel like getting back to my music. The urge is there. It's been a long time since I wrote a song, but they're coming thick and fast now."
Back at the Dakota that night, Lennon phoned his aunt Mimi, his mother's sister and the woman most responsible for his upbringing, and gushed about the new album.
John and Yoko also talked that night about their planned trip to San Francisco. They discussed leaving New York on Wednesday, December 10, which would give them a few days to do nothing prior to their weekend appearance at a rally to help Asian workers gain the same kind of equal rights and equal pay as their Caucasian colleagues. "It was about Asians, and we have an Asian kid," said Yoko. "John really was looking forward to that benefit. When he said, 'Okay, let's do it,' it meant another kind of beginning for us, one where we could once again take a political stance in public."
On Sunday night, December 7, Lennon sat down with the cassette to Yoko's single "Walking on Thin Ice" and proceeded to listen to it over and over again. "He listened to it like crazy, all weekend long," said Yoko. "It almost drove me crazy. There's this room in the apartment, overlooking the park, and he was lying down on the couch, or half sitting, with his legs on the floor. And that Sunday night, he just kept listening to the song, and listening to the song. I went to sleep. And when I came back into the room early Monday morning, he was still listening. He said it was the best song I ever wrote, but there was something else going on. The song is really a very strange song. But at the same time there was something in the air that was starting to accelerate. I felt an incredible vibe around us. Not an actual noise, but a strong vibe circling us. I started talking to him over that vibration. I said, 'John, good morning.' And he was still listening to the song."
Later that morning, Lennon had his hair cut at a nearby salon and then returned home to do a photo shoot with Yoko for photographer Annie Leibovitz. At 1 P.M., Lennon did a phone interview with a disc jockey from the RKO Radio Network. John and Yoko spent the remainder of the afternoon making phone calls and playing with Sean. The only real plan they had was to return to the Record Plant so they could continue tinkering with Yoko's song.
"It was getting late," recalled Yoko, "and we both said, 'Oh, we better go now.' We were getting to be like this old couple who really knew each other so well, and knew each other's moves so well. I went out that weekend and I bought some chocolates because John loved chocolate. I had gone out to get something, I don't remember what, and I thought, 'Oh, I better get some chocolate for him.' And I did. "Then I came upstairs, and before I could open the door, he opened it from the inside, and he said, 'I knew you were coming back.' "I said, 'How did you know that?' "He said, 'I just knew.' "I said, 'I thought of your chocolate, and I got you some.'" Lennon graciously took the chocolate from his wife and set it down on a table, but he never took a bite.
At approximately 5 P.M. on Monday, December 8, John and Yoko came downstairs and were met outside by Paul Goresh.
John and Yoko knew they were not going to pull another allnighter at the Record Plant. Most of the work on Yoko's song had been done, and producer Jack Douglas promised that he would have a master copy finished by 9 A.M. the following morning. The Lennons were grateful to get out of the studio at a relatively early hour. As Yoko said, "John wanted to get home early enough to say good night to Sean." Goresh was already gone by the time John and Yoko returned to the Dakota.
As Lennon turned around, The bullets hit Lennon in the back, shoulder, and arm. He managed to stagger up the few steps to the building's front desk before dropping to the floor and moaning, "I'm shot. I'm shot."
The desk clerk, Jay Hastings, pressed an alarm button that was wired directly to the Twentieth Precinct, and within two minutes police were on the scene. Lennon was taken by a police car to the emergency room at Roosevelt Hospital, on West Fifty-ninth Street. A team of seven doctors worked feverishly to save Lennon's life, but the blood loss was too great, and he died.
Mintz heard the news, called American Airlines immediately, and flew to New York that night. "I inventoried all of John's possessions after his death," said Mintz. "My responsibility at that point was certainly to Yoko, and she wanted me to inventory his possessions and place them away for safekeeping. It was an operation that took months. His clothing came home from the hospital in a brown paper bag. In the bag was the cassette of 'Walking on Thin Ice,' which suggests to me that on the final night of his life, in the final moments of his life, that may have been the last song he ever heard. I always thought there was a metaphor in the fact that 'Thin Ice' was in his possession when his life ended at the hands of a man who had obtained his last autograph. Those two things, taken together, must have made for a strange crossing."
Yoko didn't notice the chocolate she had brought in for her husband until days after his murder. It was still sitting on the table where he had left it. "I didn't like chocolate at all," she said. "But after John's passing, I thought, 'Should I throw it away? No, that would be wasteful.' So I said to myself, 'Well, okay, I'm going to eat the chocolate, you know. And I did."
Mintz, who remains a fixture in Yoko's life to this day, said that very little about her Dakota apartment has changed since Lennon's death in 1980. "Everything looks pretty much the same, except she now has a new bedroom," said Mintz. "She doesn't sleep in the old bedroom. For months after John's death she slept in their bed in the old bedroom. For a while, she got solid comfort being in that room. Now she uses it as a guestroom.
"In terms of how Yoko is doing on a day-to-day basis," Mintz added, "if she's not traveling, she's in that apartment, most of the time by herself. There's not much going on. She's devoted her life to his memories, and she just doesn't laugh as much anymore."
PAUL AND LINDA'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY:Friday, March 13th, 2009
March the 12th, Paul and Linda's wedding anniversary .. i've often said it but if there is one couple i could have chosen to watch grow old together it would have been Paul and Linda, if anybody ever asks me about a relationship i point to them and say 'I want that', i have a golden memory of getting to wish Paul and Linda happy anniversary when they celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary in Australia. They were together for far too short a time, but how lucky that they found each other for the time they did have.
FABULOUS:Friday, March 13th, 2009
PARIS MARCH 2009:Thursday, March 12th, 2009
MR CASUAL:Thursday, March 12th, 2009
FAMILY #2:Thursday, March 12th, 2009
The first photo's of Bea with any of her siblings, here she can be seen with James and a healthy smattering of the extended Beatle family with Aunt's Yoko and Olivia on hand as well. Thanks so much to the Fab Gail M Smith for the use of the first photo in this series, photo's Taken at Stella McCartney's Fashion Show at LIPA, June, 2008.


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The homebodies meet the hombres who don't know the way past San Jose. The Browns have won six straight in their own stadium. The 49ers, who have won two in a row at home, are 2-5 on the road.
The homebodies meet the hombres who don't know the way past San Jose. The Browns have won six straight in their own stadium. The 49ers, who have won two in a row at home, are 2-5 on the road. How does anybody lose to a crashing Carolina team, 31-14? The 49ers managed -- in Charlotte, in their most recent road game. In a November road game, the Niners were slapped around, 24-0, by Seattle. That happened a week after the Browns beat Seattle, 33-30, in overtime in Cleveland. The 49ers have had a quarterback disaster, starting with Alex Smith going on injured reserve. The result is their fifth straight losing season since reaching the 2002 playoffs. The Browns can get to the postseason for the first time since '02 with a Titans loss Sunday. Do the math. Use common sense. The Browns haven't proven they can win every game they should win. Even so ... Losing this one would be a huge disappointment. 49ers LB Patrick Willis vs. Browns RB Jamal Lewis Browns WR Braylon Edwards, a film-room junkie, is amazed by the rookie from Mississippi. "He's a rookie, but he's playing better probably than any (middle) linebacker in the NFL," Edwards said. Willis is a tackler who doesn't miss. Lewis, on the other hand, is rolling. He has averaged at least 4.2 yards per carry in four of his last five games. "You build a chemistry with your offensive line," Lewis said. Browns pass rush vs. Chris Weinke Shaun Hill led the 49ers to two straight victories, posting a 101.3 passer rating. Hill came out of Maryland undrafted in 2002 and never made an NFL start until this year. The 49ers say he won't start this one because of a back injury. Instead, former Heisman Trophy winner Chris Weinke will get the nod. Signed just this month, Weinke took one snap last week. The Panthers gave up on Weinke after he made 19 mostly miserable starts. If the Browns can't make his day a wreck, they don't deserve the playoffs. Browns run defense vs. Frank Gore Gore looked like Superman at Miami (Fla.) before blowing out a knee. He got back to "red S" status as a second-year 49er in 2006, rushing for 1,695 yards with a gaudy 5.4 per-carry average. He has regressed in 2007 (1,008 yards, 4.3 average), but it can be argued his team has dragged him down. His 29-carry, 138-yard game two Sundays ago basically beat Cincinnati. After the Browns allowed 130 yards to the Bengals' Kenny Watson, there's no reason for overconfidence. 49ers pass rush vs. Derek Anderson The last time the 49ers played a road game, they had a chance to tee off on 44-year-old Vinny Testaverde. They sacked him twice, a virtual whiff. Anderson has been sacked four times in his last eight games. Bryant Young, 35, still gets after it, but Anderson should have time to study how open Braylon Edwards can get in man coverage against CB Nate Clements. 49ers coverage units vs. Joshua Cribbs For three months, opponents kicked to Joshua Cribbs with caution. This month, they have treated the Pro Bowler like the plague. The 49ers just might give the guy a chance. Their coverage teams are effective and proud, allowing 21.5 yards per kickoff return and 5.4 yards per punt return. Cribbs ranks No. 1 and No. 6 in the NFL in those areas. Prediction: Browns, 31-17 Canton Repository


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One of my responsibilities at Jewish Day School is to write a weekly "tech tips" column for the online faculty news. This is one such tip. This one is, perhaps, particularly our-setup-specific (My Classes, Handins, Returns, etc.), but I think that the core ideas are worth sharing to the world.
One of the real challenges that we confront when teaching in a digital classroom is that there are a tremendous number of documents, spread across a tremendous number of computers, often in tremendously varying states of completion. A team of faculty is coalescing around digital portfolios this spring, and file management is the single greatest challenge that we're looking at initially.
With that in mind, it seems timely to suggest some best practices for working with files in the My Classes folder on FirstClass:
Obviously, the list goes on, but these five best practices should help cut through some of the chaos and confusion accompanied by the proliferation of documents produced by a digital classroom!
Seth Battis February 18th, 2010
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Tags: assignment, best practice, classroom, FirstClass, homework, management, paperless, pedagogy
Shelly Blake-Pock just posted a question on his blog about teaching math in a paperless environment (in fact, since I started gearing up to respond, he's posted some follow-ups as well).
Last year, wearing my math teacher hat (nominally given to me as a member of the Math & Computer Science department — normally only worn on the most formal occasions), I got involved in a project with my department trying to work with our students to develop a mathematical Wikipedia. The idea was that kids would write up their mathematical knowledge for the younger students and their classmates, creating a review site focused on what the students thought was important to know about the material we were covering in class.
The big idea was that this would push the students to both reflect on what they knew (as they worked to articulate it for less experienced students) and take part in some independent learning (as they researched their topics to figure out how to write them up). It wasn't really a rousing success, for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that the kids were assigned topics (rather than selecting their own) and ended up mostly parroting their textbook into the wiki. There wasn't any real collaboration or peer-review going on, at least not in a really critical sense ("Why did you explain it the way the text book does? I didn't get it then and I don't get it now… do you get it?")
However, Brian Lester and I got excited about the idea of how one would pursue this project from a mechanical standpoint: how would you post mathematics in an editable, readable and shareable way on the web? We went through a number of permutations, but the solution that I think contains all of the desired mechanical qualities is this: use MathML. There's a handy [take-a-deep-breath-this-is-about-to-be-a-lot-of-jargon] Javascript ASCII-to-MathML translator library online from Peter Jipsen at Chapman University. It works really well: you type in text as you would on a calculator and it gets typeset as you would see it in a professionally printed text. And you can go back and edit it.
MathML requires a plug-in for Internet Explorer 7 (no idea about 8, but I'll bet it still needs the plug-in), but Firefox can read and parse MathML natively. Peter Jipsen has links to some helpful fonts to download to make it all look a little nicer, but they're truly optional. Once it's set up on your server, you just include a magic incantation at the beginning of the page to invoke the translator, type in your calculator equations, and whamm-o: pretty equations!
Now, this only handles equations on the web. We didn't get to graphs or diagrams in our experiments last year. But I can tell you where I would look for graphs — Google has an embeddable chart generator that might work. I hope there are other similar tools.
Again, all this is with the stated goal of readable, editable, shareable mathematics online. This doesn't address doing the exploratory work: this is the write-up and reflection after the exploration. Without a tablet, I'm not convinced that one can do general mathematical work on a computer. And with a tablet, I'd add FluidMath (still in beta, I think) to the list of must-have applications.
Seth Battis August 4th, 2009
Posted In: Educational Technology, How To
Tags: Brian Lester, Chapman University, collaboration, Firefox, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, math, MathML, paperless, Peter Jipsen, Shelly Blake-Pock, Teach Paperless, Teaching, technology, wiki


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Dancing with the Stars Season 11 – Rumor Roundup!
Like I mentioned a few days ago, I normally put up a post of rumored celebs from previous seasons because it seems that it often takes a season or two before a rumored celebrity actually makes it on to the show. You just never know when a past rumor is going to come true. So, here are some past rumors – plausible or otherwise. 🙂
Probably one of the scariest rumors ever, in my view, is LaToya Jackson. She's still out there, and I bet she's still an option. I think she was a lock prior to Michael's death – I think she came right out and said that they had offered but it was too soon after Michael's death at that point.
How about Dominique Moceanu and Vera Wang?? Any gymnastics fans have a clue? As for Vera, she was in the audience several times last season, but it's pretty well known that she's a friend of Evan Lysacek's, so that could be the explanation.
Back in April, there was a rumor going around about Rachel Uchitel, but I think that ship has sailed. She was never famous (at least in a good way) and what little infamy she had is likely pretty well gone. I don't think we have to worry about her. For that same reason, I've never dedicated a rumor post to Oksana Grigorieva (part of the Mel Gibson train wreck) – I just don't think (hope?) those rumors are credible. Someone back me up here. 🙂
In early May there were a few interesting ones, plausible and not, such at Tony Blair, Lee Meriwhether and Morgan Fairchild – I see the last two as plausible, but Tony Blair??? Ummm…I dunno.
A couple other ones, such as Danny Gokey and Kurt Angle, are probably still plausible even though the rumors are more than a year old.
Well, that's as far back as I went for today. I'll see if there's enough info for a part 2. 🙂


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This week has turned out to be quite the news week for multiple sclerosis drugs and their makers. There is an acquisition in the works for one pharmaceutical company, a report was released saying how often people living with MS deviate from their prescriptions, and a major settlement was reached with the leading MS drugmaker in a case that involved bribing doctors to prescribe their med.
First the news that broke earlier in the week about Elan (of Biogen/Elan, make of Tysabri) pharmaceuticals selling off part of its drug delivery division to Alkermes Inc. The merger will leave Elan focused exclusively on drugs for neurological disorders.
What this means for people living with MS is hard to say at this point – and may be for years – but we'll keep our ears open for word from Ireland (where Elan is based and Alkermes intends to move its headquarters). Hmm. Sounds like a good reason for a research trip to Dublin to me!!!
MS Patients Stop Taking Medications
Also this week, reports surfaced that stemmed from a paper published in the Canadian Journal of Neurologic Sciences about MS patients' adherence to their prescription plans.
According to reports on the paper, nearly 700 Ontario, Canada, MS patients were followed for nearly two years to see how strictly they stuck to their multiple sclerosis drug plan.
After just six months, a full quarter of patients had stopped taking their meds. By one year, the number reached 40 percent, and at the end of the two year study, a whopping 56 percent of people with MS who were prescribed a disease modifying drug had gone off therapy.
The study followed patients before infusion therapy (Tysabri or Novantrone) was introduced to the province and well before oral meds (Gilenya) were introduced to the market and the Canadian drug program.
Why do people stop taking their meds? Because they have side effects and feel worse — even though the drugs may be effectively slowing down the progress of their MS.
Kickbacks to Doctors for Prescribing Rebif
Finally, this week's news of a massive $44.3 million settlement by EMD Serono for the "marketing" of its MS drug, Rebif absolutely disgusted me. The marketing that federal regulators (cum prosecutors) sued the company over was linked to illegal kickbacks to some doctors for prescribing the drug.
These payments were made from the time the drug was launched until the end of 2009, according to documents released by the US Department of Justice. That Rebif is now the number one selling MS drug on the U.S. market is probably the result of this kickback scheme.
This is not the first time Serono has been caught illegally marketing its drugs. In 2005, the company was slapped with a $704 million dollar fine to resolve civil and criminal charges of improperly marketing its AIDS drug, Serostim.
The monies from the Rebif settlement will be split between states and the federal government to settle both Medicare (federal) and Medicaid (state) claims against the company.
Nowhere is it listed that there are intentions to expose the doctors who were on the receiving end of the massive kickbacks.
All and all; a lot for us to digest going into the weekend.
I'm not sure how the first of these reports is going to affect us going forward. Whether the second has any relevance at all is yet to be determined.
This final report, however, has left me sick to my stomach and, while I trust my doctors implicitly, I will never take an EMD Serono product in my lifetime.
Shame on you, Serono… SHAME!
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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WASHINGTON — The U.S. population will be considerably older and more racially and ethnically diverse by 2060, according to projections released recently by the U.S. Census Bureau. These projections of the nation's population by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, which cover the 2012-2060 period, are the first set of population projections based on the 2010 census.
"The next half century marks key points in continuing trends — the U.S. will become a plurality nation, where the non-Hispanic white population remains the largest single group, but no group is in the majority," said Acting Director Thomas L. Mesenbourg.
Slower growth
Furthermore, the population is projected to grow much more slowly over the next several decades, compared with the last set of projections released in 2008 and 2009. That is because the projected levels of births and net international migration are lower in the projections released recently, reflecting more recent trends in fertility and international migration.
According to the projections, the population age 65 and older is expected to more than double between 2012 and 2060, from 43.1 million to 92.0 million. The older population would represent just over one in five U.S. residents by the end of the period, up from one in seven today.
The increase in the number of the "oldest old" would be even more dramatic — those 85 and older are projected to more than triple from 5.9 million to 18.2 million, reaching 4.3 percent of the total population.
Baby boomers, defined as persons born between 1946 and 1964, number 76.4 million in 2012 and account for about one-quarter of the population. In 2060, when the youngest of them would be 96 years old, they are projected to number around 2.4 million and represent 0.6 percent of the total population.
The non-Hispanic white population is projected to peak in 2024, at 199.6 million, up from 197.8 million in 2012. Unlike other race or ethnic groups, however, its population is projected to slowly decrease, falling by nearly 20.6 million from 2024 to 2060.
Meanwhile, the Hispanic population would more than double, from 53.3 million in 2012 to 128.8 million in 2060. Consequently, by the end of the period, nearly one in three U.S. residents would be Hispanic, up from about one in six today.
The black population is expected to increase from 41.2 million to 61.8 million over the same period. Its share of the total population would rise slightly, from 13.1 percent in 2012 to 14.7 percent in 2060.
The Asian population is projected to more than double, from 15.9 million in 2012 to 34.4 million in 2060, with its share of nation's total population climbing from 5.1 percent to 8.2 percent in the same period.
Among the remaining race groups, American Indians and Alaska Natives would increase by more than half from now to 2060, from 3.9 million to 6.3 million, with their share of the total population edging up from 1.2 percent to 1.5 percent.
The Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander population is expected to nearly double, from 706,000 to 1.4 million. The number of people who identify themselves as being of two or more races is projected to more than triple, from 7.5 million to 26.7 million over the same period.
No majority
The U.S. is projected to become a majority-minority nation for the first time in 2043. While the non-Hispanic white population will remain the largest single group, no group will make up a majority.
All in all, minorities, now 37 percent of the U.S. population, are projected to comprise 57 percent of the population in 2060. (Minorities consist of all but the single-race, non-Hispanic white population.) The total minority population would more than double, from 116.2 million to 241.3 million over the period.
Projections show the older population would continue to be predominately non-Hispanic white, while younger ages are increasingly minority. Of those age 65 and older in 2060, 56.0 percent are expected to be non-Hispanic white, 21.2 percent Hispanic and 12.5 percent non-Hispanic black.
In contrast, while 52.7 percent of those younger than 18 were non-Hispanic white in 2012, that number would drop to 32.9 percent by 2060. Hispanics are projected to make up 38.0 percent of this group in 2060, up from 23.9 percent in 2012.
Population highlights
♦The nation's total population would cross the 400 million mark in 2051, reaching 420.3 million in 2060.
♦The proportion of the population younger than 18 is expected to change little over the 2012-2060 period, decreasing from 23.5 percent to 21.2 percent.
♦In 2056, for the first time, the older population, age 65 and over, is projected to outnumber the young, age under 18.
♦The working-age population (18 to 64) is expected to increase by 42 million between 2012 and 2060, from 197 million to 239 million, while its share of the total population declines from 62.7 percent to 56.9 percent.
♦The ratio of males to females is expected to remain stable at around 104.7 males per 100 females for the population under the age of 18.
♦For the population age 18 to 64, the ratio of males per 100 females is projected to be 98.9 in 2012 and increase to 104.1 in 2060.
♦The ratio for the population age 65 and over is also projected to increase, from 77.3 males per 100 females in 2012 to 84.4 in 2060.
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Through a combination of trial-and-error and research, I've learned that you can't skimp on sunshine when it comes to certain crops. In particular, summer squash needs an extremely sunny spot. Last year, I planted in a location that got a bit too much afternoon shade and didn't get a single zucchini. (How embarrassing! I mean, zucchini is supposedly the easiest vegetable to grow.)
This year, I've got my squash, green beans and corn in my sunniest plot, just above the cactus patch. These crops should grow well together, since corn and beans grow up and squash grows out. That's the idea, anyway. So far, all three crops doing well, and I'm thinking this year's squash crop will be less humiliating.
I've found that other summer veggies, like peppers and carrots, can handle a bit more shade--although not too much. So, I've got those guys growing in slightly shadier spots. I'm lucky in that Southern California summer days are long and hot, so almost any spot is sunny for a couple of hours. Still, when planning your garden, I recommend you take into account various crops sunlight needs as much as you can.
A good reference for figuring out where to plant your veggies is Burpee's The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener. It's a giant reference manual that gives good advice on where to plant almost every vegetable in your garden, alongside detailed information on fertilizer needs and other important tips. Despite my trail-and-error tendencies, I have found this book to be extremely helpful.
To be honest, though, everyone's garden is different. I think you have to keep testing different crops in different areas until you find the right spot and configuration for ideal production*. Tree trimming regularly would also probably help.
And, obviously, container gardening helps solve some of my space and sunlight issues. I'm growing tomatoes almost exclusively in containers this year. This will save me space, and allow me to move my plants to sunnier--or shadier--spots on the patio as needed.
* Once I find the right spot for my in-ground veggies, I'll have to confront the whole issue of crop rotation--which is daunting considering my limited space. Perhaps since I'm growing small crops mixed together, it won't be too bad to grow the same crop in a very similar location the following year. We'll see...


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The 2014 USAC Eastern HPD Midget calendar contains 30 dates from April through November, encompassing more than a dozen different venues in five states.
The season opens with an April 5 race at Orange County Speedway in Durham, N.C. and concludes with the John Blewett III North/South Shootout at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, N.C. October 31 and November 1.
In between are events in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and a pair of races in New York. The New York venues are Spencer Speedway in Williamson August 1 and Oswego Speedway August 2.
An Eastern "Midget Week" is also planned, to include a June 17 race in Charlotte, plus June 20 and 21 races at Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, N.C. and Franklin County Speedway in Callaway, N.C.
Other venues on the calendar include Anderson Motor Speedway in South Carolina, Concord (NC) Motor Speedway, Wake County Speedway in Raleigh, N.C., Southern National Motorsports in Kenly, N.C., Lonesome Pine Raceway in Coeburn, Va. And the September 13 East/Midwest shootout at Columbus (Ohio) Motor Speedway.
"Kyle McGowan, our Eastern HPD Midget supervisor, has done a remarkable job of assembling the schedule," says USAC Developmental coordinator Eric Rankine. "It's a great mix of venues and offers a great challenge to those bidding for the 2014 championship."
Dates listed as "TBA" will be announced as they become firm.
The 2014 USAC Eastern HPD Midget Schedule:
April 5 – Durham, NC
April 25 – Anderson, SC
April 26 – Durham, NC
May 9 – Altamahaw, NC
May 10 – Concord, NC
May 22 – Charlotte, NC
May 24 – Durham, NC
May 31 – Asheboro, NC
June 17 – Charlotte, NC
June 20 – Altamahaw, NC
June 21 – Callaway, VA
June 27 – Raleigh, NC
July 4 – TBA
July 5 – TBA
July 11 – Anderson, SC
July 12 – Kenly, NC
July 25 – Altamahaw, NC
August 1- Williamson, NY
August 2 – Oswego, NY
August 15 – Altamahaw, NC
August 16 – Hickory, NC
August 22 – Raleigh, NC
August 23 – Concord, NC
September 13 – Columbus, OH
September 20 – Hickory, NC
October 4 – Coeburn, VA
October 10 – Altamahaw, NC
October 11 – Altamahaw, NC
October 31 – Asheboro, NC
November 1 – Asheboro, NC


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The last Wednesday of every month it get s a little crazy at The Alamo. Erok Patterson hosts our Adult-ish Game Night. We never know what he has planned, but it is ALWAYS a great time.
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Last, Last Call – 2008
It's time to close the book on the 2008 season. Thanks to all of you who visited this webpage. As the "hot stove league" heats up and moves are made, I'll check back in right here on the House of Blogs with exclusive interviews of the new Brewers…so stay tuned.
It's an honor to hold the position of Brewers television play-by-play announcer and responsibility I don't take lightly. It was also a great thrill to be able to call the post season for TBS and an even bigger thrill to witness the first playoff games in Milwaukee in a generation. The city, the fans, Miller Park had all the "national-types" talking. Milwaukee showed very well on the big stage…just like we knew it would. Way to go!
Recently, I signed a five year extension that will keep me in Milwaukee until the end of the 2013 season, at least. My family and I are thrilled. We love it here and feel blessed to be in such a special community.
Bill Schroeder signed a multi-year deal with the Brewers, as well, which I'm very happy about. I think he breaks down a game as well as anyone in the business and he's a pleasure to work with on a nightly basis. He's one of my best buds.
Special thanks to my on-air colleagues Jeff Cirillo, Davey Nelson, Jeff Grayson, Trenni Kusnierek and the glue that holds it all together, Craig Coshun, a pro's pro!
And a big thank you to our entire Brewers TV crew, led in the truck by John Walsh, Ryan Schaber, Michael Oddino, Brian Mikolajek, and Brent Vallenti. Most of them will be busy with Bucks Basketball this winter but we all look forward to re-assembling for Spring Training baseball, which will be here before you know it.
I hope you have great off-season. I'm going to be hanging with the family, tuning up my snow blower and preparing for the winter. I'll leave you with my some of my favorite highlights of the 2008 season:
Click the date (then click Wrap) to revisit the GAMEDAY story, video, and pictures:
Opening Day Tony Gwynn go ahead SAC fly in 10th.
5/1 Ryan Braun game winning, 2 RBI double.
Three Final AB wins in a row:
5/26 Gabe Kapler game winning single in 11th.
5/27 Mike Cameron walk off SAC fly in 9th.
5/28 Rick Weeks game winning RBI triple in 8th.
The Crew gets CC'd
7/8 CC Sabathia Brewers debut.
7/13 CC Sabathia HR in 4th. CC Sabathia complete game.
7/21 Bill Hall game winning HR in 10th.
7/22 Bill Hall game winning HR in 9th.
7/24 Ryan Braun game winning HR in 9th.
8/24 JJ Hardy walk off single in 12th.
8/31 CC Sabathia complete game, 1-hit shutout.
Final week dramatics
9/23 Prince Fielder walk off HR in 9th.
9/25 Ryan Braun walk off Grand Slam in 10th.
9/28 Ryan Braun game winning HR in 8th. CC Sabathia complete game. Locker room scene after clinching first post season berth since 1982.
9/29 Post Season Rally at Summerfest.
10/4 Craig Counsell turns double play in 9th. Salomon Torres records final out, first Brewer post season win in 26 years.
This is my list, how 'bout some of your favorites?
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Brian – thrilled that you signed an extension to stay with the Brewers. Thought that maybe TBS would take you away to bigger markets. I love the Brewers but truly appreciate the job you and Bill do in the booth. Amazing season!! Hardy's bobblehead day hit had to be my favorite of the season.
Hey Brian
(Transplanted [lonely] Brewers' fan here in [Cardinal country]Missouri)lol… First off, I would like to say that I'm glad that you signed that extension to remain in Milwaukee. I think you and Bill do a fantastic job!!!
One sidenote: In regards to your little stint with TBS for OUR post-season play (and Praise God for that happening this year)… It must have been a little difficult showing excitement for not only the Brewers but the Phillies as well when the big plays were made. I'd be talking to my TV and asking you directly, 'Brian why are you getting so excited about a Phillies grand-slam? Where's you're Brewers' loyalty? Come on, anyone who faces us are the bad guys remember?'… LOL. I'm just kidding, I'm given ya hard time. I know, being in the media biz myself… I know that, unfortunately, you have to lean towards the nuetral side since it is a national televised game… (politics yuck!)
Anyway, there were quite a few games that stick out in my mind this past year. 1) JJ Hardy's bobble-head day, 2) Gabe Kappler's gogetem' in the stands catch in LF at Dodgers' stadium, 3) All of Brauns, Fielders', Sabathia homerun tags… (his pitching was pretty good too… lol) and there are quite a few more games, but the most valuable one for me this year, was that very moment when they clinched… a playoff spot!!! …PRICELESS!
So, that being said… it should make for a very, very interesting winter for us don't you agree? And last but not least, tip your hat to Ned Yost for getting us to that level of contention. Take Care and God bless Brian!
Doc (Missouri)
PS… Here's a long-distance HI-5!!!!!!!!!
So BA, did you get a free iPhone for the use of your voice?
Great job calling the national games, too bad the Brewers didn't make it harder on you to hide your bias. Next year they'll make you slip though!
Hey Brian!
After giving you an extension, will we still be able to afford CC?
Congrats on the extension, from Budapest that looks like a win-win contract…
glad to hear you're staying with us!!
You and Rock make a great team.
It's a long offseason…enjoy it. And remember, lift with your legs not your back.
Cheers…to a great '08 season and to a snowblower that makes it through the entire winter!
Thank you for an outstanding 2008! As for my favorite moment, it had to be the final out on the final day of the season, but not of the Brewers game. The Mets game that day, an hour after the Brewers had won.
You know me as the matrix board op at Maryvale Baseball Park, so when I say I flew to the ceiling when the playoff spot was ours, you know how hard that would be for me, and how exciting it was.
We shall see you in the press box in 2009 at Maryvale, and GO BREWERS!
In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink it here! (When the Brewers win)!


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Syria rejects expanded UN chemical weapons inquiry
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Syria has rejected a UN proposal to expand an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in the country after UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the UN should look into all allegations of their use by both sides in the conflict.
An advance team of U.N.-mandated experts has gone to Cyprus and is awaiting permission from the Syrian government to investigate allegations of chemical weapons attacks, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
Syria has asked the United Nations only to investigate what it says was a rebel chemical attack near Aleppo. The opposition blames President Bashar al-Assad's forces for that strike and also wants the U.N. team to look into alleged chemical attacks by the government side elsewhere.
Syria's ally Russia has backed Damascus against demands from Western powers that the investigation be widened. Ban made clear he wanted an all-encompassing inquiry, saying it was the "firm principle" of the United Nations that investigators be granted access to all areas where chemical weapons were allegedly used.
After meeting the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is providing scientists and equipment, in The Hague, Ban said an advance team was in Cyprus, ready to go to Syria within 24 hours.
"All we are waiting for is the go-ahead from the Syrian government to determine whether any chemicals weapons were used, in any location," Ban said.
"I urge the Syrian government to be more flexible, so that this mission can be deployed as fast as possible," he said.
Syria's Foreign Ministry compared efforts to broaden the probe to the U.N.'s role in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq by the United States.
It is "at odds with the Syrian request. It shows there are hidden intentions...which violate Syrian sovereignty," a statement on state television said. "Syria cannot accept these manoeuvres."
Ahmet Uzumcu, head of the OPCW, said the full mission would comprise 15 experts, including inspectors, medical experts and chemists. Officials from the Geneva-based World Health Organisation will also be on the team.
It will be headed by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom, a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, whom Ban also met in The Hague. Sellstrom was to join the advance team on Monday.
An offer of assistance came from opposition campaigner Basma Kodmani, who told Sellstrom in an undated letter that tissue samples had been gathered from six alleged victims of chemical attacks on 24 March in the villages of Adra and Ateybeh.
"There are 32 persons showing symptoms of illness and are currently being treated following exposure to the weapons who are willing to be examined by the inquiry," the letter said.
Ban said all serious claims on the use of chemical weapons in Syria should be examined, and urged speed so that evidence was preserved.
"The use of chemical weapons by any side, under any circumstances, would constitute an outrageous crime with dire consequences," he declared.
Britain and France want to broaden the U.N. investigation to include Homs and Damascus, where rebels say Assad's forces used chemical munitions. They also blame the government for the incident near Aleppo.
Russia, which has used its veto-wielding seat on the U.N. Security Council to counter Western pressure on Syria, has suggested that Western powers are using the spectre of weapons of mass destruction to justify intervention in Syria, as they did in Iraq.
The OPCW, established to oversee the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, has helped to destroy roughly 80 percent of chemical weapons stockpiles declared by 188 members.
Syria is one of just eight countries not to have joined, along with Angola, Egypt, Israel, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia and South Sudan.
Western intelligence agencies say Syria is believed to have one of the largest remaining stockpiles of undeclared chemical weapons in the world, making it a security issue for Washington and its European allies, as well as for neighbouring Israel.
Syria has not confirmed or denied possessing chemical weapons, but says that if it did, it would never use them against its own people, only to repel foreign invaders.
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